Traveling kit



Jan. i0, 1939. W. E. ERICSON ET AL 2,143,062

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Patented Jan. 10, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TRAVELING KIT Application May 1, 1937, Serial No. 140,185

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to improvements in traveling kits.

The invention is particularly designed for providing holding means inside a receptacle which will be particularly adapted to form storage for unused catamenial pads, and a special compartment for storage of the used pads, including means for thoroughly protecting and deodorizing the used pads.

An object of the invention is to provide a traveling kit that is particularly compact and that will give the maximum amount of storage for the pads, and that will fully protect the used from the unused pads, and that will permit convenient deodorizing of the used pads.

These and other features of the invention Will be more specifically brought out in the following description and the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a catamenial pad receptacle, the receptacle being shown in open position, and a portion of a used pad compartment broken away to shown a deodorant container; and

Figure 2 is an enlarged, fragmentary, sectional view as on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the receptacle body A is formed of two sections connected by a wall portion 2 constituting a flexible hinged portion between the two sections. The free edges of the receptacle sections preferably carry interlocking slide fasteners 3 and 4, which lock and hold the receptacle closed. The slide fasteners are operated by means of a customary slide member 5.

Secured inside of each receptacle section is a loose inner Wall 6, of moisture proof material, constituting a bag or envelope portion for the pads. A ap l, of similar moisture proof material, is secured to the back Wall of each receptacle section to fold over the free upper edge of the loose wall 6.

The container envelope in one of the receptacle sections is designed for holding the unused pads and a belt, and the other container envelope on the other side for holding the used pads.

On the back wall of one envelope is secured a pocket 8 of preferably moisture proof material, said pocket being designed for holding a belt. Similarly secured on the back Wall of the opposed envelope container is a pocket 9, of moisture proof material. formed with openings I0. The

pocket 9 is designed for containing a deodorant.

The envelope containers are made of materially larger capacity than the capacity of the receptacle sections themselves, so that in use, with the receptacle sections closed, the envelope containers will be collapsible with respect to each other to accommodate in the two envelope containers a large number of used or unused pads, as the case may be.

The means afforded by ordinary traveling kits to contain catamenial pads are subject to many objections, in connection with being arranged adjacent other articles of wear, and in connection with the convenient carrying and protection of varying numbers of used'and unused pads, and in bringing about deodorizing, etc.

In the present invention, by having the receptacle adapted for this one purpose, and by having the moisture proof envelope containers materially larger than the sections of the receptacle so that the two envelopes will collapse with respect to each other, a varying number of used or unused pads, as the case may be, in the separate envelope containers are accommodated, and the unused pads are kept fully protected with respect to the used pads in the other envelope section.

The inclusion of the perforated pocket in the envelope 9 affords convenient and effective deodorizing means.

We claim:

In combination with a foldable, two-section receptacle of the character set forth, including means for detachably connecting said sections at their free edges, a loose envelope of flexible, moisture-proof material of larger size than each section and secured to and covering the bottom and walls of that section, with the side walls of the envelope portion projecting beyond the side walls of the supporting section and the connected outer wall of the envelope spanning the open faceof said section, with the envelope opening towardoneside wall of the section, a flap of flexible, moistureproof material supported by an adjacent side wall of the receptacle and overlapping the open end of the envelope, and moisture-proof pockets carried by the inner faces of the envelopes adjacent the outer wall of the receptacle, one of said pockets being imperforate and one perforate, for the purpose set forth.

WILMA E. ERICSON. WARREN T. ERICSON. 

